For more than a year, Einstein@Home has been using about
one-third of the available computer time to search for radio
pulsars in data from the Arecibo Observatory. I’m happy to report
that we found our first radio pulsar last month: PSR J2007+2722.
It is still not sure, but this appears to be a rare type of object
called a Disrupted Recycled Pulsar. The discovery was published
on-line by the journal Science, on Thursday August 12th.

Further details of this first Einstein@Home discovery may be found
in the main news item posted on the Einstein@Home web site, athttp://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ . You can also use Google News
and similar searches, with keywords like ‘pulsar’ or ‘J2007+2722’
or ‘Einstein@Home’ to find recent news articles about the
discovery, in English, German, French, Spanish, Russian and other
languages.

So far, Einstein@Home has only analyzed about half of the Arecibo data
set. Due to improvements in the instrumentation, the more recent data
is better-quality than the older data, so I am sure there are other
interesting objects to be discovered!